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Ben Fedidat

Education

2009 - 2013: Jerusalem College of Technology Machon Lev - B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering, with honors, average 92.39

2009: Lucien De Hirsch, Paris - Scientific Baccalaureate, Specialty: mathematics

January 2022 - present: Senior Engineer at Google

Python developer at Google Duplex, using ML to make fully automated calls on behalf of users.
Leveraged GenAI to create a generic platform connecting bots to the real world through telephony.

April 2019 - January 2022: SDE at Amazon

Java programmer at Alexa Shopping Reorder team, involved in various aspects of machine learning and query understanding
Took part in creating AWS Resilience Hub, from initial design all the way to productionization

June 2015 - March 2019: Military service in Israeli Air Force, Ofek unit, captain rank

Java programmer with permanent on-call responsibility for the core of mission-critical systems
Led development of new services, modernization and containerization and improved performance and reliability

April. 2014 - June 2015: Military service in Israeli C4I Corps

CTO & Chief Engineer branch: researcher and prototype maker with embedded circuits and C#.NET
Matspen unit: SAP ERP BI/BW and full-stack+D3.js web reports developer

2012 and 2013 excellence scholarships from the Jerusalem College of Technology
Psychometric Test score: 724/800 according to the standard weighting, 741/800 according to the quantitative reasoning weighting
2019 Lt. Col.’s unit distinction for excellence
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Certification, grade 893/1000
[Paper] Mirsky, Y., Fedidat, B., & Haddad, Y. (2019). Physical Layer Encryption using a Vernam Cipher. arXiv, arXiv-1910
[Patent] Mirsky, Y., Fedidat, B., & Haddad, Y. A harmonic based encryption and decryption system for waveform signals. Patent WO2015097312A1, 26 Dec. 2013

Programming languages:

Tools:

IDEs: Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio
Development tools: Mercurial, git, Kubernetes/Docker, Gradle, Maven, Ivy, Ant, Jenkins CI, Atlassian, ELK stack
Other tools: Figma, Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Powerpoint, Work, Visio, VBA Macros), MATLAB, Wireshark

Skills and knowledge:

Development: engineering processes and terminology, web development (frontend and backend, microservices), testing, data structures and algorithms, electronics, statistics
Networking: TCP-IP protocol stack, LAN/WANs, network security and management, cryptography, cellular networks
Systems: experience with GNU/Linux and Windows operating systems, CI/CD, scripting, automation

English: fluent (IELTS band 8.5/9)
Hebrew: fluent
French: native (TEF Level C2)